Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

It's an interesting question. IHACPA has been doing this work, doing independent pricing, in hospitals and in residential care for a period of time. I'm not aware of their advice being wrong in the past, but essentially that's why it's advice from IHACPA. If the government were to consider that that advice was wrong, it's open to government to make other decisions. I don't believe that's happened to date, but that would be a safeguard that would be available should that need arise, if the government felt their advice was wrong.